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Abstract:

Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "myth" and its historical influence, the role of whites, and the rhetoric of progress.

Notes:

Mirrored from academia.edu.

See an earlier version of this paper, a presentation at Louhelen.

Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech:

A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation

Christopher Buck

published in Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity

ed. Negar Mottahedeh, pp. 111-144

New York: Palgrave, 2013

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